The prime suspect in the Christmas Day bomb attack at St Theresa Catholic Kabiru Sokoto Usman has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja this morning.

A federal high court in Abuja, Justice Ademola Adeniyi has found Kabiru Sokoto guilty of the crime of terrorism and murder. Sokoto was the mastermind of the deadly Christmas day bombing of St. Theresa Catholic church that killed at least 44 people in 2011.

Sokoto was a member of the Shura council of Islamist sect Boko Haram according to his persoanl testimony during the trial.